A transgender activist who was allegedly part of a thwarted terrorist plot targeting several locations across Los Angeles asked a federal judge to be sent to a women’s jail pending arraignment in January. Zachary Aaron Page, a biological man and suspected member of the left-wing Turtle Island Liberation Front, requested during her first courtroom appearance […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha said the analysis of President Donald Trump’s speech from TV news personalities seemed “predetermined” and “prewritten” to be negative. Concha appeared on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First on Thursday, the day after Trump addressed the nation. In the hours after Trump’s live speech, a slew of commentary came […]
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill on Wednesday led her state in becoming the latest to challenge the government’s decision to reverse a policy requiring the country’s most popular abortion pill to be prescribed in person. Murrill filed a motion in the Western District Court of Louisiana, requesting a stay of the Biden-era Food and Drug Administration […]
The federal government admitted liability for the deadly plane collision in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, conceding military personnel and government air traffic controllers contributed to the disaster. In the 209-page filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department wrote that the United States “admits that it owed a […]
Inflation unexpectedly dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 2.7% for the year ending in November, according to an update to the consumer price index released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Forecasters had expected that inflation would rise to 3.1%. Thursday’s report is the first after the end of the government shutdown, which delayed […]
The third round of December Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in six days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this payment on Dec. 24. The first round of payments went out on Dec. 10 to recipients born on […]
Federal law states that it is “unlawful for a Federal contractor” to “make, either directly or indirectly, any contribution or expenditure of money or other thing of value … to any political party, committee, or candidate for Federal office or to any person for any political purpose or use.” Despite this prohibition, a Washington Examiner […]
President Donald Trump returned to themes of the 2024 election in his opening argument for next year’s midterm elections in a televised speech at the White House on Wednesday night. “Good evening, America,” Trump opened. “Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess.” Trump assailed former President Joe Biden on inflation, crime, and the border while […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium insisted on Thursday that its European Union partners must provide ironclad guarantees that it will be protected from Russian retaliation before it would back a massive loan for Ukraine. At a high-stakes EU summit in Brussels, the 27-nation bloc’s leaders are set to decide on whether to use tens of billions of euros […]
The State Department approved a substantial weapons sale to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States on Wednesday, a diplomatic institution representing Taiwan’s economic, military, and other interests. TECRO is considered the de facto embassy for Taiwan. The sale, totaling over $11 billion in military weapons, was announced while President Donald […]
